Design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains
Series
Advanced studies in supply management
ISBN
978-3-8349-2262-5
Type
book section
Date Issued
2010
Author(s)
Peters, Nils
Editor(s)
Bogaschewsky, Ronald
Eßig, Michael
Lasch, Rainer
Stölzle, Wolfgang
Abstract
Voluntary sustainability initiatives such as codes of conduct, certification schemes or environmental/social management systems have become the predominant applied approach for companies to specify proactive environmental or social obligations for supply chains. However, companies face two main challenges in the design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for their supply chains: Firstly, they recognize acceptance problems by stakeholders and supply chain partners as well as opposition by competing initiatives. Secondly, companies have realized significant resource demands to set up voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains and ask for more efficient solutions. The article at hand addresses these challenges by identifying the key and complementary resources that enable an effective (i.e., legitimized) as well as efficient design of voluntary sustainability initiatives for supply chains.
Language
English
Keywords
Voluntary sustainability initiatives
supply chain
resources
institutional entrepreneurship
resource-based view
exploratory case studies
structural equation method
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Supply management research : aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse 2010
Publisher
Gabler
Publisher place
Wiesbaden
Number
Bd. 3
Start page
61
End page
94
Pages
34
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
68472